Tips for enriching your career We help you to "fit" into the organisation and to make the best use of one's skills. Read more

1. Understand Yourself
Honest evaluation of yourself is the starting point. Who you are as a person, your personal attributes, value systems, strengths and areas of improvement will help you in your search for the perfect career.

2. Have a Career strategy
A long term goal is important to evolve a career strategy. One needs to have some idea about what direction one should pursue. Evolving a long term strategy helps you in taking the small steps in the right direction

3. Build the Blocks
The responsibility for your career development rests with you. One needs to chart out specific actions related to skill development and value creation to the team and to the organisation. Build the blocks steadily and consistently. Constantly seek improvement in your work and output and acquire the skills which are required for the next set of roles.

5. Develop passion in your work
Passion in your work brings the best out of you. One gets happiness in results if you do work with passion.

6. Team champion
Teaming and collaborating are essential in achieving business results. Develop positive attitude towards team members, leverage each other in the team, share best practices and motivate each other to achieve higher results.

7. Customer focussed
Identify who your customer is and work towards satisfying their requirements. Customers could be internal as well as external and one needs to enhance the service levels in meeting customer requirements.

8. Communication is the key
Effective communication is the key for any career development. Written and/or oral communication skills, listening skills, presentation skills, mail/phone communication skills provide a multi-dimentional challenges and one needs to constantly look for improvement in this area.

9. Cross functional experience
Organisation looks for broader experience and people who can understand all the functions. Plan a stint in other functions to acquire the desired skills

10. Come out of your comfort zone
Challenge yourself with new targets and try new things. They will create more tension as they are outside of your comfort zone, but will broaden your experience base and can result in big rewards

11. Specialists vs Genaralists
In today's world, people look for specialists. Develop deep skills in your area and create track record in your work.

12. Run your own race
Determine your benchmark and race towards it in your career development. Don't be affected by what others are up to in the organisation.

Work is fun Work and fun are not mutually exclusive. Work can be fun and you play a major role. Read more

Work and fun are not mutually exclusive. Work can be fun and you play a major role.
Most of us think that work and fun are mutually exclusive of each other. Work can be fun. It is up to us to make the work interesting and make the work place exciting to come.
Some ideas to find fun in our job:

Inject a bit of passion in our work. Passion brings intensity and get our juices flowing

Break the job into manageable tasks. The whole job may be daunting, but smaller tasks make it simpler to handle

Be the positive agent in your work place. It does not require intelligence to get reminded of failures and negative sentiments. Spread the positive energy to dispel the negative thoughts in you and in the team.

Enjoy team work. Working along with others and sharing successes and failures together make it very worthwhile to do the job.

Try new things. Doing the same thing can be a frustrating . Experiment new ideas and execute them vigorously

Think yourself as a leader in your work. Try to be the best in your assigned work.

Focus on quality work. Sluggish work does not satisfy anyone. A quality work satisfies our ego leave alone our bosses.

Set your benchmarks and go after them. They give direction to our job

Take breaks after honest work. Don't let fatigue get you

Laugh at yourself and smile at your mistakes. Enjoy the small successes of your job

What you make of the job is what you get. Our work hours constitute a big time of our active day and if we can make it interesting, our life will be that much more enjoyable.

Importance of process You think "Process is boring". A Big no.. It helps you to become smarter. Read more

What could be those reasons?
Most of us shun processes in our work. We feel suffocated to conform to a standard process and we would like to believe that process slows down our work and kill creativity. However it has been found out, process helps us in our work and enhances our productivity.

In our daily work, 80% of it is routine. They call for routine responses. A good process should take care of them and release our mind for 20% exceptional issues

Good processes ensure consistent results and responses.

Good processes ensure scalability. The quality of output can be maintained even if the volume increases if the process is designed to take care of scalability.

Following a good process helps us to be more organized. We can manage our tasks better as we will have better control on our tasks.

Process helps us to audit our work and help us in tracking the issues. It helps us to identify the gap areas in our work

Since it takes care of 80% regular work, it encourages us to be creative and handle exception issues better.